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From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanyak@nvidia.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: reorder the REQ_ flags
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 07:31:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b35e786e-3e38-ce08-efca-912b33c248d6@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09a72de2-c171-63d8-ff0d-13050aa40c87@kernel.dk>

On 5/10/2022 4:03 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 5/10/22 7:00 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Keep the op-specific flag last.
> 
> Not that I'm against the patch, but we really should have some
> justification in the commit message as to why the change is
> useful or needed.
> 

Something like following might be useful :-

"Currently we support seven request flags out of which only
__REQ_NOUNMAP is used with REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES, rest of the flags are
not necessarily associated with specific REQ_OP_XXX. Instead of mixing
the request specific flags with the non-request specific flags, move
request specific flags __REQ_NOUNMAP at the end for better readability
so future request specific flags can go at the end."

Full disclosure I've not verified other flags.

-ck



      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-11  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-10 13:00 [PATCH] block: reorder the REQ_ flags Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-10 23:03 ` Jens Axboe
2022-05-11  7:31   ` Chaitanya Kulkarni [this message]

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